Whole lot of litigation

In the last month I’ve been, as we say, underwater with both religious observances and litigation. A whole lot of litigation — cases in state courts, federal courts; New York, New Jersey, California, Florida; copyright, trademark, other torts of competition, laughable RICO claims, and good old commercial litigation; motions, briefs and it looked like a trial too, but we settled that today.

Nothing would be easier than just throwing up a blog post — why, every day, or more — of the fact that someone sued someone else claiming trademark infringement. I’m not even counting the truly preposterous trademark claims that are just thrown onto routine contract and business disputes or used increasingly as a sham “federal question” hook to evade Section 230 of the DMCA. I mean real trademark claims, the one that clog my Google Alerts all day.

That’s not news, to me, unless it’s my client. I could post more posts by just writing squibs on those lawsuits. “Hey, Joe sued Shmoe! Whaddya know!”

Not that there’s anything actually “wrong” with that. But I have more respect for my readers than relying on such material. You knew this already, of course.

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About the Title: The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging.

As for me, I'm Ron Coleman, an AV-rated partner at Archer - Attorneys at Law,** a firm of about 180 attorneys with offices in NJ, NY, PA and DE (but active nationwide). I've been called an "IP maven" but I'm really a commercial litigator with a special interest in copyright and trademark infringement claims involving the Internet, including advising clients how to avoid them or - if necessary - how to make the other guy wish he had.

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